Thinking of a secure password is Munni Badnaam Hui (2024) EP 2 Hindi Web Serieshard, so demanding a user change it every 60 days fills many with dread and leads to weaker security. Microsoft has realized this and decided to remove default password expiry as a security baseline feature in Windows 10.
When organizations deploy Windows 10 to tens, hundreds, or even thousands of employees, default security out the box is very important. That's why Microsoft provides Windows security baselines, which consist of a group of Microsoft-recommended configuration settings that can be relied upon to provide a more secure operating system.
As part of the baseline, Microsoft in the past stipulated a 60-day password expiration policy, which meant every user was forced to change their password every couple of months (unless an organization changed the configuration). As Ars Technica reports, with the release of Windows 10 v1903, password expiration is being dropped from the baseline because it's actually detrimental to security.
Microsoft explains in its latest draft security baseline for Windows that, "When humans are forced to change their passwords, too often they'll make a small and predictable alteration to their existing passwords, and/or forget their new passwords ... Periodic password expiration is a defense only against the probability that a password (or hash) will be stolen during its validity interval and will be used by an unauthorized entity. If a password is never stolen, there's no need to expire it."
Microsoft also points out that if a password is stolen, the thief has up to 60 days to use it based on this expiration policy, which is ample time to gain entry to a system and cause chaos. So on every level, password expiration simply doesn't work, which is why it's disappearing.
Passwords still need to meet a minimum length requirement, be complex enough so as not to be easily guessed, not have been used before, and stored securely. It may still be the case that individual organizations enforce their own expiration policy, but it seems likely the demand for a new password every few months will impact far fewer workers going forward, and that's a good thing for both their sanity and security.
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